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Abstract

The care of patients suffering from chronic diseases is a growing source of expense for health care services around the world. The implementation of new models for patients’ treatment and follow-up needs to be faced in order to increase patients’ quality of life, and to reduce the costs associated. In this article, we propose a point-of-care for home care scenarios that is based on the remote monitoring of biomedical parameters.

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